Patricia L. Bellia teaches and researches in the areas of internet law, electronic surveillance law, and constitutional law.
Before joining the faculty in 2000, Professor Bellia worked for three years as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice, advising components of the Justice Department and other executive branch actors on statutory and constitutional matters, including separation-of-powers and high-tech crime issues. She also clerked for Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge José A. Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor Bellia earned her J.D. from the Yale Law School in 1995, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and executive editor of the Yale Journal of International Law, as well as a student director of the Immigration Legal Services Clinic. She earned her A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1991, where she was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa
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